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"A powerful and illuminating re-examination of Heidegger's understanding of existential death and its enduring importance for philosophy and life, this book explains the pivotal role which death plays in Being and Time, in the development of Heidegger's mature thinking, in the post-Heideggerian continental tradition, and beyond"--
List of contents
Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations used for works by Heidegger; A note on the notes (de capo); Part I. Rethinking Death in Heidegger: 1. Death and demise in being and time; 2. The death of metaphysics and the birth of thinking, or: why did being and time fail to answer the question of being? 3. Heidegger on death and the nothing it discloses; 4. Death and Rebirth in Being and Time's perfectionist philosophy of education; Part II. Rethinking Death after Heidegger: 5. White's Time and Death: on the advantages and disadvantages of reading Heidegger backward; 6. Rethinking Levinas on Heidegger on death; 7. Critical afterlives of Heidegger's phenomenology of existential death in Sartre, Beauvoir, Levinas, Agamben, and Derrida; 8. Heidegger's mortal phenomenology and the postmetaphysical politics of ontological pluralism; 9. Why it is better for a dasein not to live forever, or: being pro-choice on the immortality question; Concluding recapitulations: lessons from rethinking Heidegger's phenomenology of existential death and the irreducible nothings it discloses.
About the author
Iain D. Thomson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education (Cambridge, 2005) and Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity (Cambridge, 2011), and the co-editor (with Kelly Becker) of The Cambridge History of Philosophy: 1945–2015 (Cambridge, 2019).
Summary
A powerful and illuminating re-examination of Heidegger's understanding of existential death and its enduring importance for philosophy and life, this book explains the pivotal role which death plays in Being and Time, in the development of Heidegger's mature thinking, in the post-Heideggerian continental tradition, and beyond.
